Fjala Jone

Last Despatches: Kosovo Journalist Disappears After Visiting Guerrilla Base

Ismail Berbatovci closed the door of his apartment in the small central Kosovo town of Lipjan/Ljipljane for the last time on the morning of July 23, 1998.

His wife Peme remembers that he went out to do an interview with Rame Buja, a senior leader from the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, at the guerrilla force's local base in the nearby mountains.